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Re: Notification on new mails



On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:55:39PM +0800, Chengqi(Lars) Song wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Im using getmail/procmail/mutt/msmtp as my personal mail toolkit. It works 
> well but lacks of notification on new mails. How do you deal with that?
> 
> I want to add a notification to new coming mail in my "inbox-vip" mail box. 
> How can I modify my procmailrc for that? the corresponding lines are:
> 
> :0
> * ^(Subject|From|To|Cc|Bcc):.*vip
> $MAILDIR/inbox-vip
> 
> 
> how to add a command when those lines works? echo the "Subject" to osd-cat to 
> display new mail' title on screen for example.
> 
> Thanks
> lars

What is your desktop of choice? I know there are several gnome apps to monitor 
mbox and maildir mailboxes..
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